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Letters of Feodora, Princess of Hohenlohe-Langenburg. From 1828 to 1872. INSCRIBED BY QUEEN VICTORIA.

By: (FEODORA) Princess Anna Feodorowna Wilhelmine:

Price: £700.00

Publisher: London, Spottiswoode & Co., 1874 1st edition:

Seller ID: 82840

Hardback, 8vo. 8.5 x 6 inches. Maroon cloth binding, gilt lettering to spine with gilt bands to ends. Gilt paneled boards with beveled edges. Dark green endpapers. In very good condition. Fading to spine, some rubbing to extremities, some minor handling marks, white soiled patch to bottom front corner. Endpaper cracked between hinges. Binders label “Burn & Co.” to rear. Inscription by Queen Victoria to halftitle page; “To Sir .... Phelps? from Victoria. Sept. 5. 1874.” Mild/moderate foxing spots to endpapers and title page, some foxing to inside pages but overall ve...
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Image for Letters of Lady Rachel Russell; From the Manuscript in the Library at Woburn Abbey. To which is Prefixed, an Introduction, vindicating the Character of Lord Russell Against Sir John Dalrymple,etc.; To this edition is now added, The Trial of Lord William Russell for High Treason. Extracted from the State Trials. Fifth Edition, Corrected and Enlarged.

Letters of Lady Rachel Russell; From the Manuscript in the Library at Woburn Abbey. To which is Prefixed, an Introduction, vindicating the Character of Lord Russell Against Sir John Dalrymple,etc.; To this edition is now added, The Trial of Lord William Russell for High Treason. Extracted from the State Trials. Fifth Edition, Corrected and Enlarged.

By: (LORD RUSSELL)

Price: £145.00

Publisher: Dublin, Printed for C. Dilly, 1775 5th:

Seller ID: 82205

Hardback, 7 x 4 inches. In full tree calf leather binding, raised and gilt banding to spine, with maroon leather spine label lettered in gilt. Speckled page edges. Plain endpapers. In very good condition. Corners slightly bumped, small chips to corners of rear board. Small label mark to top end of spine. Tiny hole/crack to leather nr bottom of spine on front. A couple of minor marks to boards. Bookplate to endpaper “Rev. Thomas Greene,” with neat inscription to top corner of title page. A couple of odd minor spots to pages inside, else a very clean and tight copy. Lxxvi + 237 + 74p...
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Worthy Dr.Fuller. Illustrated with twelve pages of half-tone plates.

By: ADDISON, WILLIAM:

Price: £6.00

Publisher: london: J.M.Dent and Sons Ltd. 1951 1st edition.:

Seller ID: 73883

Size 5.75 x 8.5 inches. In grey cloth covers with gilt to black title label on spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; spine slightly rubbed at ends. A couple of small tears to top edge. Price clipped). Mild foxing to edges. Else a clean and tight copy. 298pp. With b/w illustrations. Thomas Fuller is best know for his ‘History of the Worthies of England’. This biography gives his social and educational background, including the Civil War.
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Via Gibbs, A Memoir WITH SIGNED LETTER.

By: ALSTON, Madeline:

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Constable and Company, 1921 1st:

Seller ID: 83532

Hardback, 9 x 6 inches. Dark maroon cloth covers with gilt lettering to spine and blind embossed line details to boards. In very good condition. Spine faded, some rubbing to corners and ends. Bottom corner slightly bumped. Light scratch to front of cloth. Front endpaper darkened. Signed & headed notepaper pasted to verso of halftitle page; “June 1921, from George (George Abraham Gibbs) Tyntesfield, Bristol.” Some rubbing to edges of a couple of plates, a couple of minor foxing spots to a couple of pages. Else a very good clean and tight copy. 196pp. Illustrated with an engraved...
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Amiel's Journal The Journal Intime of Henri-Frederic Amiel. Translated with an Introduction and Notes.

By: AMIEL, Henri-Frederic: WARD, Mrs. Humphrey:

Price: £75.00

Publisher: London, Macmillan & Co., 1906 repr:

Seller ID: 80090

Hardback, 7.5 x 5 inches. In polished dark blue leather, raised banding and gilt decoration and lettering to spine, gilt paneled boards, all edges gilt and marbled endpapers. Fine binding by “Morrell, London.” In very good condition. Sumptuous fine leather binding by “Morrell, Binders, London.” Some minor rubbing to corners. Some light foxing spots to endpapers. Inside pages very clean and tight. Else a stunning copy. 318pp.
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The Whispering Gallery. Being Leaves from a Diplomat’s Diary.

By: ANON: (PEARSON, Hesketh)

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, John Lane the Bodley Head Ltd, 1926 1st edition.:

Seller ID: 82941

Hardback, 9 x 5.5 inches. In dark blue cloth covers with yellow lettering to spine and front. Top page edges red. In very good condition. Spine slightly faded. Corners slightly rubbed. Some minor handling marks to boards. Slight browning to endpapers. Neat inscription to front endpaper, “Southborough”. Inside pages all very clean and tight throughout. Else a very clean and tight copy. 258pp. Originally published anonymously, The book is a fictional diary, published as an anonymous hoax. This caused the author to be prosecuted for attempted fraud, but he won the case. It was still w...
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An Anecdote to the Miseries of Human Life, In the History of the Widow Placid, and Her Daughter Rachel. The Seventh Edition.

By: ANON;

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Printed by J. Haddon for T. Williams, London. 1812 7th ed:

Seller ID: 74590

Size approx 4 x 7 inches. Half bound in maroon calf leather to spine and corners with marbled paper covered boards. Gilt decoration and lettering to spine with black leather spine label. Page edges marbled. In very good condition. Leather and boards are faded with some rubbing to edges and corners. Inside is immaculately clean and tight and pages remain bright. Owners booklabel and label “B.Hunt, Fancy Bookbinder & Stationer, Birmingham” to front endpaper. 134pp.
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Poachers Pie SIGNED COPY.

By: ARCHER, FRED:

Price: £14.00

Publisher: Hodder and Stoughton, 1976 1st:

Seller ID: 83519

Hardback, approx 8.5 x 5.5 inches. Green cloth with gilt to spine, in dustwrapper. In very good near fine condition with very good dustwrapper. (DW some minor rubbing to edges, not price clipped.) Cloth clean. Authors signature to title page. Pages all clean and tight throughout. Else a very clean and tight copy. 160pp. Illustrated with B&W photos and line-drawing vignettes to each chapter.
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Home for Christmas. A Wartime Anthology. Illustrated by Matilda Hunt.

By: ARCHER, JEREMY:

Price: £7.00

Publisher: Century. London. 2007 1st edition.:

Seller ID: 73365

Size 5.5 x 8.75 inches. In green cloth covers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. Green endpapers. In near fine condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; Not price clipped). A very clean and tight copy. 222pp. With b/w line drawings. Collection of stories, reports, diary entries and letters relating to Christmas in wartime, from the American War of Independence to the Iraq War in 2006.
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Held Fast for England. G.A.Henty, Imperialist Boy’s Writer.

By: ARNOLD, GUY:

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London. Hamish Hamilton. 1980 1st edition.:

Seller ID: 63231

8vo. In blue cloth covers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. In near fine condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; spine slightly faded. Not price clipped). A very clean and tight copy. 195pp. With b/w portrait frontis. Biography of G.A.Henty, examining his background, life as a War Correspondent and attitudes to Non-British people in his novels.
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Held Fast for England. G.A.Henty, Imperialist Boy’s Writer.

By: ARNOLD, GUY:

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London. Hamish Hamilton. 1980 1st edition.:

Seller ID: 64169

Image for Ralph Thoresby, the Topographer; His Town and Times. With Portrait of Thoresby, From the Original Painting by Parmentier. In Two Volumes. LIMITED NUMBERED EDITION.

Ralph Thoresby, the Topographer; His Town and Times. With Portrait of Thoresby, From the Original Painting by Parmentier. In Two Volumes. LIMITED NUMBERED EDITION.

By: ATKINSON, D. H.;

Price: £65.00

Publisher: Leeds. Walker and Laycock, 1885 1st LTD Numbered edition (260/500.):

Seller ID: 77442

2 voluems. Hardbacks, half bound in green cloth boards and vellum spines with brown leather spine labels lettered in gilt. Top edges gilt. In very good conditions. Corners slightly bumped and rubbed, spines darkened, spine labels rubbed, label on vol.1 has repaired tear. A couple of small marks to cloth. Endpapers darkened with some neat pencil notations at front. Numbered page darkened. A couple of spots to frontis. Some neat pencil notations to margins. Else inside pages very clean and tight throughout. 443 + 443pp (+ indices and notes.) Illustrated with an engraved frontis Portrait of Thore...
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Lord Carteret A Political Biography 1690-1763.

By: BALLANTYNE, Archibald:

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, Richard Bentley & Son, 1887 1st:

Seller ID: 80861

Hardback, 9 x 6 inches. Dark blue navy cloth with gilt lettering and decoration to spine, gilt vignette and blind decorative edging to boards. Grey endpapers. In very good condition. Corners and ends of spine rubbed, small split to bottom end of spine. Minor soiling/fading to bottom leading corners of boards. Bump to front middle edge. the odd tiny handling mark else pages all very clean and tight throughout. 428pp.
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Memoirs of British Ladies, Who Have Been Celebrated for Their Writings or Skill, In the Learned Languages, Arts and Sciences.

By: BALLARD, George;

Price: £175.00

Publisher: London, T. Evans, 1775:

Seller ID: 77869

Hardback, approx 8.5 x 5 inches. In full polished calf leather binding, red and brown leather spine labels lettered in gilt, raised banding, plain endpapers, speckled page edges, gilt board edges. In very good condition. Professional repair to spine, corners bumped with a couple of small chips, edges rubbed, some small marks to boards. Glue repair to inside front hinge. Bookplate and neat inscription to front endpaper “Doctors Commons 1828.” Some slight darkening to title page and opposite where silk pagemark has been laid. A couple of small minor foxing spots else a very clean and...
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Clock This. My Life as an Inventor.

By: BAYLIS, TREVOR:

Price: £2.00

Publisher: Headline. 1999 1st edition.:

Seller ID: 74045

Size 6.25 x 9.5 inches. In dark blue cloth covers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. Light brown endpapers. In near fine condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; Not price clipped). A very clean and tight copy. 272pp. With b/w and colour photographs. Autobiography of the inventor of the clockwork radio.
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Image for Mop Fair Some Elegant Extracts from the Private Correspondence of Lady Viola Drumcree, the Fatherless Daughter of Feodorovna, Countess of Chertsey.

Mop Fair Some Elegant Extracts from the Private Correspondence of Lady Viola Drumcree, the Fatherless Daughter of Feodorovna, Countess of Chertsey.

By: BINSTEAD, Arthur M.:

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London & Edinburgh; Sands & Co. 1905 1st:

Seller ID: 79860

Hardback, 8 x 5.5 inches. In light blue cloth binding with colour pictorial design to front, and black lettering to spine. In very good condition. Some rubbing and fading to cloth; edges and corners rubbed, some rubbing to front but mostly to rear board. Some minor darkening to endpapers, with neat inscription to front “Done, 1905.” Else inside pages all very clean and tight. 219pp. + 4pp cat.
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The Reckoning. How The Killing of One Man Changed the Fate of The Promised Land.

By: BISHOP, Patrick;

Price: £10.00

Publisher: William Collins / HarperCollins 2014 1st edition:

Seller ID: 74967

Size 6 x 9.5 inches. In grey cloth with gilt to spine and illustrated dustwrapper. In very good near fine condition, with very good dustwrapper. Dustwrapper has small chip to rear bottom corner and cloth has small mark at same spot. Else a clean & tight, otherwise unmarked copy. 299pp. With maps and b&w photographic illustrations.
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Image for Trooper To Dean A biography of the Very Rev H. W. Blackburne, D.S.O., M.C. Foreword by Dr. Woodward, formerly Bishop of Bristol and Gloucester. SIGNED COPY.

Trooper To Dean A biography of the Very Rev H. W. Blackburne, D.S.O., M.C. Foreword by Dr. Woodward, formerly Bishop of Bristol and Gloucester. SIGNED COPY.

By: BLACKBURNE, Haidee:

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Bristol, J.W. Arrowsmith, 1955 1st:

Seller ID: 83536

Hardback, 7.5 x 5 inches. Grey cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In dustwrapper with maroon lettering and pattern to front. In very good codnition with very good dustwrtapper (DW, some handling marks and darkening, some spotting to rear side and bottom edge on front. Top edge slightly rubbed. Not price clipped.) Some minor fading to cloth on edges. Authors inscription to front endpaper “Cookee, from an intensely grateful patient. H.W.B. Sept, 1956.” Inside pages all clean and tight throughout. Else a very clean and tight copy. 110pp. Illustrated with a B&W frontis portrait.
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Alice on the Line.

By: BLACKWELL, DORIS / LOCKWOOD, DOUGLAS:

Price: £6.00

Publisher: Angus & Robertson. London. 1965 1st Edition:

Seller ID: 58819

Tall 8vo. In brown cloth covers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. Brown endpapers. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; in removable plastic cover. Slightly rubbed along edges with small tears. Not price clipped). Small marks to back endpapers. Mild foxing to edges. Else a clean and tight copy. 204pp. With b/w photographs. Doris Blackwell’s father was officer-in-charge of Alice Springs telegraph station from 1899 to 1908. A personal story of life at The Alice at the turn of the 19th /20th century.
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R.D.B.’s Diary 1887-1914.

By: BLUMENFELD, R.D.:

Price: £3.00

Publisher: London. Wiliam Heinemann Ltd. 1930 new imp.:

Seller ID: 73610

Size 5.75 x 8.75 inches. In dark blue cloth covers with gilt to spine and with facsimile signature to front. In very good condition. Spine slightly darkened and bumped at ends. Small marks to boards. Mild foxing to edges. Neat inscriptions to front endpaper, one dated 1931. Occasional pencil marks in margins. Else a clean and tight copy. 248pp. With portrait frontis and other illustrations. The author was an American-born journalist, writer and newspaper editor who is chiefly notable for having been in charge of the Daily Express from 1902 to 1932. Here he records meetings with eminent people,...
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